There’s no denying that the 2024 Arizona Fall League season was historic. There was a little bit of everything in the desert, with record books being rewritten during the 32nd year of prospects putting their skills on display. It’s always difficult to gauge just how significant six weeks' worth of

Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based

The Arizona Fall League concluded with the Salt River Rafters claiming an unlikely title with their win over Surprise in Nov. 16’s AFL championship game, bringing a dramatic close to Week 6, and this year, of AFL play. The players honored for their performances in the season’s final week were

For six more weeks again this year, some of the best prospects in baseball shined in the Arizona Fall League, the game’s most elite prospect circuit. Now it’s time to give out some hardware. The Fall League annually awards the Joe Black MVP Award to its top performer, and since

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – You don’t always know that you’re witnessing history when you see it. But anyone who watched Josue Briceño on a daily basis during the 2024 Arizona Fall League campaign knew that he was hitting at a prolific rate unlike anything seen in the circuit’s 32 years. On

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The Arizona Fall League is so much fun and just two games remain. The Salt River Rafters and Scottsdale Scorpions meet in a play-in contest Friday that will stream live on MLB.com at 8:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. local. The winner meets the two-time defending champion Surprise Saguaros for the title

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Arizona Fall League has been host to a who’s who of baseball royalty that cut their teeth in pro ball early in their careers -- future Rookies of the Year and Most Valuable Players Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Ronald Acuña Jr., to name a few.

Week 5 in the Arizona Fall League was about spotlighting the best the top prospect circuit had to offer, with Fall Star festivities limiting regular-season AFL play to only four days in the desert. These two players stood out for squeezing exceptional performances into that small sample. Mesa corner outfielder/infielder

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Josue Briceño set the stage for a 2024 breakout by launching 20 extra-base hits in 44 games during his U.S. debut the year before. He got off to a good start in Single-A this season before spraining the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in mid-May

Here are the top performers from the fifth week of AFL action:

MESA, Ariz. -- Thayron Liranzo only got one at-bat during the 2024 Fall Stars Game, which made him an unlikely MVP candidate. But when you torpedo a go-ahead home run in the top of the ninth 437 feet at 112 mph off the bat, that’s as good a case as

Here are the top performers from the third week of AFL action:

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck's Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Considering the Tigers just rode a wave of homegrown talent to a postseason run that brought them within a game of the ALCS, it’s

Week 2 of the Arizona Fall League saw teams score in bunches and pitchers light up the radar gun. These strong performances stood out from the pack. Scottsdale third baseman Josue Briceño (DET No. 9) used another huge week at the plate to earn AFL Hitter of the Week honors

Here are the top performers from the second week of AFL action:

Their 2024 season was barely over, and the Tigers were already thinking about 2025. Speaking in an end-of-season press conference Monday, Detroit's president of baseball operations Scott Harris joked that he used to try to talk to manager A.J. Hinch about prospects, only to be met with an ambivalent eye

The 32nd season of the Arizona Fall League is a week old, and already, there are top prospects standing out amid the field of, well, top prospects. Here are the top performers from the first week of AFL action:

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Jeff McNeil and Andrew Painter were the star attractions for Saturday's Arizona Fall League game between the Glendale Desert Dogs and Scottsdale Scorpions. Yet Josue Briceño stole the show. Rehabbing a wrist injury in hopes of rejoining the Mets for the National League Championship Series, the two-time

CLEVELAND – The Tigers called up Jackson Jobe, baseball’s top pitching prospect, for the final week of the season and added him to their AL Wild Card Series roster with the idea that his talent could make an impact. Don’t expect their belief in him to change after a two-run,

It felt like everywhere you looked in 2023, rookies were making key contributions. Johan Rojas was covering acres of ground for the Phillies. Corbin Carroll and Brandon Pfaadt were speeding around the bases and making clutch starts respectively for the D-backs. And perhaps most famously, Evan Carter was on the

There is definitely more than one way to build a winning Major League team, and the 12 clubs headed to the postseason in 2024 prove that. On one hand, there are the Tigers and Guardians, the AL Central teams leading the way with 16 and 15 homegrown players on their

DETROIT -- Amidst the elation of the Tigers’ clubhouse celebration Friday night, having clinched their first postseason berth in 10 years, Tarik Skubal joked that Jackson Jobe would be on clubhouse cleanup duty. It was a fun moment to poke a little fun at MLB's top pitching prospect and Detroit's

DETROIT -- The calls began as the Tigers tacked on runs in the eighth inning Wednesday night. “We want Jobe! We want Jobe,” one section of fans behind the Tigers’ dugout chanted. Others picked up on it as Detroit’s four-run lead became six.